The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

Also our fellow competitors, who are indeed the people just mentioned - we do not compete with men who lived a hundred centuries ago, or those yet not born, or the dead, or those who dwell near the Pillars of Hercules, or those whom, in our opinion or that of others, we take to be far below us or far above us. So too we compete with those who follow the same ends as ourselves; we compete with our rivals in sport or in love, and generally with those who are after the same things; and it is therefore these whom we are bound to envy beyond all others. Hence the saying.

For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

Something is infinite if, taking it quantity by quantity, we can always take something outside.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.